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* {{imslpscore|Take_My_Heart_Away_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr) | * {{imslpscore|Take_My_Heart_Away_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)}} — Take My Heart Away (No. 1) | ||
* {{imslpscore|Blue_Eyes_of_Spring_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr) | * {{imslpscore|Blue_Eyes_of_Spring_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)}} — Blue Eyes of Spring (No. 2) | ||
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==Notes and References== | ==Notes and References== |
Revision as of 09:39, 29 August 2023
Around September 1873 Tchaikovsky wrote Two Songs (TH 96 ; ČW 224-225), apparently at the request of Nikolay Bernard, editor of the Saint Petersburg journal Nuvellist (Нувеллиси).
Instrumentation
Both songs are scored for medium voice with piano accompaniment.
Movements and Duration
- Take My Heart Away (Уноси моё сердце)
Allegro moderato (A minor, 66 bars). - Blue Eyes of Spring (Глазки весны голубые)
Allegro grazioso, ma non tanto (A major, 103 bars).
Texts
1. Afanasy Fet (1820–1892), from his poem To a Songstress (Певице) (1857):
Уноси моё сердце в звенящую даль, |
2. Mikhail Mikhaylov (1829–1865), from an untitled poem in the cycle New Spring (Новая весна) (1857) — a translation from the German of Die blauen Frühlingsaugen (1831) by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856):
Глазки весны голубые |
Some of the words of the poem Blue Eyes of Spring (No. 2) were altered by Tchaikovsky.
Composition
The origins of these two romances are unknown, but they had been completed by 29 September/11 October 1873, which was the date they were approved for publication in the Saint Petersburg journal Nuvellist (Нувеллист), and it is likely that they had been commissioned by Nuvellist's editor Nikolay Bernard.
Publication
Nos. 1 and 2 were first published in the November 1873 and January 1874 editions respectively of the journal Nuvellist [1]. In January 1876, they were published independently by Nikolay Bernard with other works, and reprinted by Pyotr Jurgenson in October 1885 [2].
Both songs were included in volume 44 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works (1940), edited by Ivan Shishov and Nikolay Shemanin.
Autographs
The whereabouts of Tchaikovsky's manuscript scores of the songs are unknown.
Recordings
- See: Discography
Related Works
- See Two Songs (1875).
External Links
- Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) — downloadable scores — Take My Heart Away (No. 1)
- Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) — downloadable scores — Blue Eyes of Spring (No. 2)
- LiederNet Archive — Take My Heart Away (No. 1)
- LiederNet Archive — Blue Eyes of Spring (No. 2)